A worker with Grindle's Landscaping in Ellsworth uses a compactor to level earth at the construction site for the new parking lot at Bangor Y's Second Street location Thursday. Y community broke ground for the new parking lot at the Bangor Y's Second Street Location Thursday morning, September 23, 2010. (Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)

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This rendering by WBRC Architects-Engineer shows the new parking lot at the Bangor Y's Second Street location Thursday morning, September 23, 2010. The lot will have 91 parking slots and is slated for completion in November 2010. (renderinf: courtesy of WBRC Architects-Engineers)

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Bangor Y staff, board members and other members Y community broke ground for the new parking lot at the Bangor Y's Second Street Location Thursday morning, September 23, 2010. (Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)

Posted Sept. 23, 2010, at 12:32 p.m.

Bangor Y CEO Mike Seile announced in February a $2.6 million project, which will expand its Second Street location, close the Hammond Street facility for good and consolidate all programming into one building.

Thursday, Sept. 23, groundbreaking began on the expansion.

In 2009 and early 2010, the Y quietly acquired several parcels on Second Street and Sanford Street to allow for expansion of the Second Street location. In July and August, several buildings were demolished, and Seile said a few others would come down later this month.